History Of Psychology

Question 1

What early school of thought in psychology was founded by wilhem Wundt and Edward Bradford tichener

Answer 1

Structuralism

Question 2

What perspective of psychology engaged people in introspection, training them to report elements of their experience in order to determine their immediate sensations, images, and feelings?

Answer 2

Structuralism

Question 3

What perspective of psychology emphasized the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behaviour?

Answer 3

Psychodynamic

Question 4

What perspective of psychology believes our personality is shaped by unconscious sexual conflicts and the minds defences against its own wishes and impulses?

Answer 4

Psychodynamic

Question 5

What science seeks answers to questions about how and why we think, feel, and act as we do?

Answer 5

Psychology

Question 6

What perspective of psychology states that consciousness serves a function that enables us to consider our past, adjust to our present and plan our future?

Answer 6

Functionalism

Question 7

What perspective of psychology was founded by sigmund feud?

Answer 7

Psychodynamic

Question 8

What level of analysis considers how compelling models (such as the media) can influence behaviours and mental processes?

Answer 8

Social-cultural level of analysis

Question 9

What perspective of psychology drew attention to ways that current environment influences can nurture or limit our growth potential?

Answer 9

Humanistic

Question 10

What perspective of psychology found Freudian psychology too limiting because Freud focused on the importance of early childhood memories in shaping our personality?

Answer 10

Humanistic

Question 11

In addition to Freudian psychology, what other perspective was the major force in psychology from the 1920s until the 1960s?

Answer 11

Behaviourism

Question 12

What science uses observable behaviours to infer mental process- our internal, subjective experiences, such as sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs and feelings?

Answer 12

Psychology

Question 13

What perspective of psychology first encouraged explorations of our down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness?

Answer 13

Functionalism

Question 14

What perspective of psychology started a revolution in the 1960s that led the field back to its early interest in mental process, such as how our
Mind process and retains information?

Answer 14

Cognitive

Question 15

What level of analysis considers how the presence of others can influence behaviours and mental process?

Answer 15

Social-cultural level of analysis

Question 16

What level of analysis considers cognitive processing and perceptual interpretations?

Answer 16

Psychological level of analysis

Question 17

What level of analysis considers the role of genetic predispositions in responding to the environment ?

Answer 17

Biological level of analysis

Question 18

What level of analysis considers emotional responses?

Answer 18

Psychological level of analysis

Question 19

What perspective of psychology argued that since science is rooted in observation and you cannot observe a sensation, feeling, or thought, psychology should only study people’s observable behaviour?

Answer 19

Behaviourism

Question 20

What level of analysis considers hormonal influences on behaviours and mental process?

Answer 20

Biological level

Question 21

What perspective of psychology scientifically explores the ways we perceive, process, and remember information?

Answer 21

Cognitive